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Source: Northeast Times

“A US official told Al Jazeera that the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group and the Makin Island amphibious force, carrying 2,000 Marines, have left San Diego. The official said three carriers and two landing groups are deploying around Iran. UK Maritime Trade Operations said a supertanker carrying 2.5 million barrels was struck by an unknown projectile and caught fire while passing through the Strait of Hormuz.” (10/01/26)

https://northeasttimes.com/2026/10/01/u-s-sends-carrier-group-and-2-000-marines-toward-middle-east-as-tanker-is-hit/

Source: The Hill

“A federal judge on Wednesday ruled the Trump administration must turn over a Department of Justice (DOJ) memo that legally authorizes the Pentagon’s lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected two of the administration’s three arguments to keep the document secret in a 66-page opinion, requiring that the government submit the memo within two weeks for his confidential review. Three legal organizations — the American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights — filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit last year to demand the release of this memo and other records related to these strikes. … More than 230 people have been [murdered] in at least 70 boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since the military campaign’s start on Sept. 2, 2025. ” (10/01/26)

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/6124784-judge-orders-doj-memo-release/

Source: Yahoo! News

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday the country’s military had deployed a domestically developed FP-7 tactical ballistic missile in the war against Russia for the first time. … Zelensky did not specify the target, but published a video of a missile launch at night. The Ukrainian defence firm Fire Point had previously postponed the first combat deployments of its ballistic missile on several occasions. … By developing its own ballistic missile weapon, Kiev aims to achieve parity with Moscow in terms of military capability. Ukraine has already deployed short-range ballistic missiles from old Soviet stockpiles during the war.” (10/01/26)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/zelensky-announces-first-ukraines-own-181837283.html

Source: Space.com

“SpaceX’s latest astronaut launch just set a new space record. The company’s Crew-13 mission for NASA arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) today (Oct. 1) at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT), 7 hours and 55 minutes after it launched from Florida’s Space Coast. That’s the fastest any American spacecraft has ever reached the orbiting lab, NASA officials said. … In May 2020, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts reached the orbiting lab just 3 hours and 3 minutes after lifting off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. … Crew-13 delivered four astronauts to the orbiting lab: NASA’s Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency and Sergey Teteryatnikov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos. The quartet will live and work in space for the next six months.” (10/01/26)

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-crew-13-astronaut-mission-docks-iss-fastest-trip-us-spacecraft

Source: Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

“Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Pfizer and its CEO, Albert Bourla, accusing the drugmaker of misleading consumers about the safety and effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine. … Uthmeier filed the lawsuit in state court, alleging that Pfizer told consumers its COVID-19 vaccine was safe while failing to disclose potential risks, including heart inflammation and other adverse events. Pfizer, according to the lawsuit, urged people to get the shot to protect others, even though the company never tested whether the vaccine stopped the virus from spreading. … Pfizer said in a statement the state’s allegations have no merit and that it would respond to the suit in due course.” [editor’s note: While Uthmeier is a grandstanding pol with a history of frivolous publicity-seeking and political corruption, there does seem to be a case here; the discovery phase should prove quite interesting – TLK] (10/01/26)

https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/business/article317458055.html

Source: The Hill

“The Supreme Court announced Thursday it will decide the legality of President Trump’s mandatory detention policy, putting one of his banner immigration programs on the justices’ docket for their upcoming term. The Trump administration argues it can detain people without bond if they’re found to be in the country unlawfully, even if they have been living on U.S. soil for years. It’s a significant expansion of the government’s immigration powers. The push has fueled thousands of cases claiming the policy exceeds federal law, creating an avalanche of work for judges across the country, who are racing to keep up. The case marks another major confrontation between the Trump administration and the conservative-majority court. However, the justices opted against taking up a broader legal question of whether Trump’s policy violates constitutional due process protections. As of now, the court will only decide if the policy follows federal law.” [editor’s note: Under the “supreme” federal law — the US Constitution — it’s literally impossible to “be in the country unlawfully” – TLK] (10/01/260

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/6122542-supreme-court-mandatory-detention-policy-trump

Source: Quartz

“The Labor Department reported Thursday that seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims fell by 1,000 to 197,000 for the week ending September 26, the lowest reading since mid-July. The prior week’s figure was revised up by 1,000, from 197,000 to 198,000. The four-week moving average of claims slipped 2,500 to land at 200,000, a level that irons out the noise of weekly fluctuations. That figure was also revised up by 250 from the prior week, to 202,500. Continuing claims — a measure of insured unemployment and a proxy for the number of people currently receiving benefits — fell by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 1.701 million for the week ending September 19, the lowest since March 2023, according to Bloomberg. The insured unemployment rate held at 1.1%.” (10/01/260

https://qz.com/us-jobless-claims-197000-lowest-mid-july-100126

Source: New York Times

“France and Britain are abandoning a landmark migration deal that allowed the British to return migrants who crossed the English Channel illegally in exchange for those who applied to enter via official means. The deal, known as ‘one in, one out,’ struck in the summer of 2025, was intended to deter dangerous illegal crossings of the channel, which have roiled politics in Britain and raised tensions between London and Paris. The original deal was struck for one year and was extended by a month, until Oct. 1, but will not be renewed. France pulled the plug despite entreaties from London to keep it in place, according to officials in both countries, in part because the French government wants Britain to strike a broader deportation deal with the 27 countries of the European Union.” (10/01/26)

https://archive.is/UHwxE

Source: CNBC

“A judge on Thursday dismissed the criminal case accusing former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and permanently barred prosecutors from refiling the same charges. District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman, in his order tossing the case ‘with prejudice,’ cited the ‘exceptional circumstances’ of the risk that President Donald Trump would pressure prosecutors to re-charge Hearn. A dismissal with prejudice prevents a case from being refiled.” (10/01/26)

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/01/reflecting-pool-vandalism-dismissed-hearn-trump.html

Source: Associated Press

“A series of blasts were heard across the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Wednesday night, hours after the government banned the use of drones and as fighting continued in the northern region of the country. An intelligence service official, who was not authorized to speak to the media, confirmed that there had been three blasts in three different locations but declined to provide further details. A diplomatic source who requested anonymity for his safety described hearing a blast at 7 p.m. near the defense headquarters, followed by a siren. Residents near the defense headquarters also said they heard a blast near a factory in the area past midnight. It remains unclear whether the blasts were related to an attack or were part of training exercises at the defense headquarters.” (10/01/26)

https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-blasts-tigray-war-a864e8cd442bade4531b8e7609f3216c

Source: United Press International

“Japan hiked its permanent residency fee for foreigners living in the country on Thursday to $1,266, a 2,000% rise, along with new minimum requirements covering income, pensions and Japanese-language ability. The changes, in line with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s immigration reforms in response to the country’s rapidly expanding community of non-Japanese, saw long lines at immigration offices in recent days of people trying to get in their applications before the higher charges — first rise in 50 years — kicked in. … other changes, including income above Japan’s average annual household income, proficiency in Japanese on a par with an ‘independent user’ and a pension with projected benefits similar to a 30-year employee pension on an equivalent income are scheduled to come into force next April, with the earnings requirement back-dated to applications made from April 2026.” (10/01/26)

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/10/01/Japan-hikes-pemanent-residency-application-fee/6391790855654/

Source: Washington Post

“Like many Florida municipalities, officials in St. Lucie County recently decided to get rid of all their automated license-plate readers made by Flock, the company whose cameras have drawn scrutiny over police misuse and data privacy concerns. County officials thought they had 52 of the cameras — which law enforcement agencies use to record passing vehicles’ license plates as well as the time and location of each sighting — scattered across the county’s main roads on Florida’s east coast. But as they prepared to remove them, they discovered 14 more that they hadn’t known about and that the county hadn’t permitted.” [editor’s note: It’s unclear whether these cameras are on government or private property; if the latter, why would the government need to “permit” them? – TLK] (10/01/26)

https://archive.is/my13H

Source: euronews [EU]

“French security forces detained more than 600 people while dozens of police and gendarmes were wounded as protests that have seen blockades of high schools and violent clashes escalated, the interior minister said on Wednesday. The movement in the lycées, attended by students aged 15 to 18 for their final three years of secondary education in France, has angered the government. Since last week, students have staged protests outside schools over grievances ranging from timetables, class sizes and a shortage of teachers to overheated classrooms during this year’s heatwaves. The protests started in the Île-de-France region around Paris but have now spread to other cities nationwide.” (10/01/26)

https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/01/hundreds-held-dozens-wounded-as-protests-over-conditions-in-french-schools-escalate

Source: Alabama Political Reporter

“Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined the attorneys general of Arkansas and Louisiana in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block abortion shield laws in three states. Marshall joined the attorneys general of Arkansas and Louisiana in filing a lawsuit Wednesday, arguing that California, Massachusetts and New York are interfering with Alabama’s ability to enforce its abortion ban. The case asks the Supreme Court to invalidate laws that protect abortion providers from investigations, prosecutions and other legal action originating in states where abortion is prohibited. … Federal regulations allow abortion pills to be prescribed through telehealth and dispensed by mail, meaning a provider in a state where abortion remains legal can potentially prescribe medication to a patient in a state with an abortion ban.” (10/01/26)

https://www.alreporter.com/2026/10/01/alabama-joins-supreme-court-challenge-to-abortion-shield-laws/

Source: US News & World Report

“Egyptian police arrested ⁠six ⁠journalists from a fact-checking ⁠and investigative media outlet, accusing them of ​spreading misinformation on behalf of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, which the ‌publication denied. The arrests comprised ‌the entire newsroom of Matsaddash, a digital platform ⁠that has ⁠operated since 2018, according to the Egyptian Initiative for ​Personal Rights (EIPR), which is providing the journalists with legal representation. According to the EIPR, plainclothes security personnel had started raiding the journalists’ ​homes on Monday evening and confiscated electronic devices.” (10/01/26)

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-10-01/egyptian-police-arrest-all-six-journalists-of-investigative-outlet

Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]

“Chinese automotive groups have cause to celebrate their go-global strategy amid breakneck export growth in recent years, with deliveries in 2026 expected to beat expectations already buoyed by an international energy shock caused by conflict in the Middle East. Leading carmakers from BYD to Chery Automobile have doubled down on overseas expansion, with some evolving into powerful contenders in markets such as Europe and Africa, which were once dominated by the likes of Volkswagen. … The government-backed industry body recently forecast that overseas Chinese vehicle sales – which comprise passenger cars, buses and lorries – could top 12 million units in 2026, up 44 per cent from last year’s 8.3 million.” (10/01/26)

https://archive.is/ABAHI

Source: Fox News

“About one in eight new cancer cases worldwide in 2024 — 2.3 million cases — have been linked to infections, according to a new analysis from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). The researchers identified 12 specific infections that were linked to human cancer cases, including Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, Schistosoma haematobium, HTLV-1, Opisthorchis viverrini, Clonorchis sinensis, Merkel cell polyomavirus and HIV. The following five infections contributed to nearly all the global cases: H. pylori, ~760,000 cases; HPV, ~750,000 cases; HBV, ~360,000 cases; EBV, ~260,000 cases; HCV, ~160,000 cases.” (10/01/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/health/surprising-culprit-tied-1-8-cancer-cases-worldwide-major-study-reveals

Source: Seattle Times

“Americans are deeply frustrated with President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy and rising prices, with most panning his performance and blaming his policies as higher costs threaten his party’s chances in November. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that only 17% of U.S. adults approve of the Republican president’s handling of the cost of living. Just 26% approve of his handling of the economy overall, marking a new low. A majority, 65%, of U.S. adults now blame Trump’s policies for persistently high costs more than factors outside of his control, signaling growing weariness over his aggressive use of tariffs and continued unhappiness with the war with Iran.” (10/01/26)

https://archive.is/IS3MR

Source: ABC News

“Glaciers in Switzerland – the home to the most in the Alps – lost 5.5% of their ice volume this year, the second-biggest percentage drop on record due to heat waves and low winter snowfall, experts report. ‘Alpine glaciers have no chance of surviving in the long term under such conditions,’ the GLAMOS Swiss glacier monitoring service and Swiss Academy of Sciences said in a statement released Thursday. The trend has worsened in recent years: Over the past five years alone, the volume of ice in Switzerland has declined by nearly a fifth, the experts say.” (10/01/26)

https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/swiss-glaciers-lose-5-ice-volume-2026-heat-136905312

Source: Antiwar.com
by Thomas S Karat

“What October 7 opened is visible on the ground before it is visible anywhere else. By the reckoning of an Israeli newspaper, Israel has seized more territory from its neighbors since that day than in any comparable span in decades. The war did not stay in Gaza. It moved outward on every front where a border could be pushed. … A war that produces this much cannot be allowed to end, and it has not been.” (10/01/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/thomas_karat/2026/09/30/the-usefulness-of-a-massacre

Source: The Daily Economy
by Donald J Boudreaux

“Daniel McCarthy — Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at the Heritage Foundation — recently penned in the pages of American Spectator, an obituary of sorts for libertarianism. His essay is just the latest contribution to what has become a torrent of triumphalist declarations by pundits on the left and right that we Americans, having gorged ourselves on this junk-food philosophy, are now turning to a healthier diet of statism. Yet McCarthy’s eulogy, like the others, is marred by mistakes. Here are three.” (10/01/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/libertarianisms-critics-bury-another-a-straw-man/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“The U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq is not as ignominious as the withdrawal from Afghanistan after some 20 years of occupation, nor does it resemble the humiliating U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam but it can be — and should be — an opportunity for Americans to engage in some serious soul-searching about the concept of foreign interventionism that has become a normal and permanent way of life for the American people. This is especially true given the ongoing fiasco of President Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran, which has wreaked untold death, destruction, suffering, injuries, and impoverishment on the Iranian people, just like U.S. interventionism did to the people of Iraq under the rubric of bringing them ‘freedom.'” (10/01/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/10/01/american-soul-searching-after-the-iraq-withdrawal/

Source: The Dispatch
by Justin Stapley

“A major consequence of the American Revolution was the preservation of the free-market realities engendered by the long tradition of salutary neglect, threatened by the remnants of England’s monarchical leviathan. The American colonists proved to be an exception to English constitutionalism, having no direct representation in Parliament and being at the whim of royal prerogative as a colonial venture under the executive authority of foreign policy. The colonies ended up being outside English polity and thus subject to the whims of mercantilism rather than allowed to continue prospering under the spontaneous capitalism of the mother country. And so, the people revolted.” (10/01/26)

https://thedispatch.com/article/how-constitutionalism-allowed-free-markets-to-bloom/

Source: The Hill
by Jeff Hoopes

“Forbes recently dropped its 2026 Forbes 400 list: The 400 richest Americans today are worth a combined $8 trillion. Elon Musk, at the tip-top of the list, is worth an estimated $908 billion. If you spend your life thinking about taxes, as I do, a list like this naturally raises the wealth-tax question. One might think such a list would make an argument in favor of wealth taxation. If you think hard about the numbers, however, it actually shows how bad some arguments are in its favor.” (10/01/26)

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/6118919-forbes-400-wealth-tax-rebuttal/

Source: Fox News
by Mike Davis

“In October 2024, the High Court of American Samoa, an unincorporated territory of the United States, issued a staggering ruling that received little media attention. The justices ruled that, since American Samoa is unincorporated, the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms does not apply there. The ruling allowed a near-total gun ban to take effect. President Donald Trump and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum can and must reverse this immediately. The issue of territories is obscure, so some background is helpful. The United States has 50 states and several territories, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa. The District of Columbia also is not a state; however, unlike the other territories, it receives three electoral votes for the presidency pursuant to the 23rd Amendment.” (10/01/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mike-davis-american-gun-free-zone-didnt-know

Source: CounterPunch
by Melvin Goodman

“There is no greater myth regarding American exceptionalism than the view that only the United States has always seen the promotion of ‘liberal democracy’ as part of its national identity. In actual fact, the United States pledges itself to ‘liberal democracy’ the world over only when its military designs are compromised or stymied. The model was President Woodrow Wilson’s ‘war to end all wars’ during World War I. When Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany in 1917, he famously stated that the ‘world must be made safe for democracy.’ Wilson understood that the American people were not interested in a conflict as part of a larger geopolitical battle, but would rally around the idea of a moral crusade to permanently eliminate militarism and establish a lasting global peace.” (10/01/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/01/the-american-mythology-of-liberal-democracy/

Source: Cato Institute
by Ryan Bourne & Nathan Miller

“The 10-year Treasury yield exceeded 5.3 percent yesterday—its highest intraday level since 2002. It has risen by roughly half a percentage point this month. Given the scale of the US debt that needs refinancing and projections for ongoing annual federal deficits, such a surge in government borrowing costs could be a big deal for US interest spending levels and, ultimately, the path of the debt itself.” (10/01/26)

https://www.cato.org/blog/persistently-higher-treasury-yields-could-add-trillions-debt-over-10-years

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“About one-third of the world’s people are between the ages of 14 and 29, the largest youth generation in history. And in recent years, this demographic bulge (dubbed Generation Z) has certainly created history. By tapping social media’s ability to both lament and liaise, youth-led protests have toppled corrupt leaders from Bangladesh to Bulgaria and pushed democratic reforms in institutions from colleges to courts. The latest example: student demonstrations in France over the poor quality of that country’s high schools. As the United Nations declared two years ago, ‘Young people are powerful forces for promoting integrity’. If the worldwide decline in democracy is ever reversed, credit might first go to this global cohort of fresh-faced netroots. One budding success could be in Serbia. Since 2024, the southeastern European country has experienced one the world’s most admired student-led uprisings.” (09/30/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0930/When-students-rise-up-integrity-might-prevail

Source: The Realist Review
by James W Carden

“Like many of the brightest minds of his generation (not least Bill Clinton), Christopher Hitchens was seduced by the prospects of humanitarian intervention in the 1990s, after spending his formative years protesting the Vietnam War. Hitchens’[s] turn toward neocon militancy attracted notice among certain of his colleagues well before the war in Iraq. … Hitchens’[s] erstwhile colleague, the legendary Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn, felt that Hitchens ‘craved to be an insider.’ It was a trait, wrote Cockburn, ‘which achieved ripest expression when he elected to be sworn in as a US citizen by Bush’s director of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff.’ Yet there were other expressions of this craving, equally ripe.” (10/01/26)

https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/christopher-hitchens-warmonger

Source: EconLog
by Joy Buchanan

“If such [a ‘self-sovereign’ AI] agent existed, how would it find its way around an economy? It cannot read the minds of the millions of strangers whose choices determine what is valuable. It does not automatically know that a mine flooded yesterday, that a restaurant has empty tables tonight, or that a particular programmer suddenly has three free hours. What can it see? The answer, I think, is the same thing you and I look at: prices.” (10/01/26)

https://www.econlib.org/econlog/prices-as-a-map-for-minds-that-cant-know-everything

Source: Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley

“The decline of higher education into an ideological echo chamber has been widely discussed on this and other sites. Polls show record lows in the public trust in our universities and colleges as revenues decline and closures increase. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon responded to this meltdown with a common-sense call for greater transparency and tolerance. The response from teacher unions has been nothing short of hysteria, led by Randi Weingarten at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Todd Wolfson at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) — two of the most polarizing and political figures in teaching.” (10/01/26)

https://jonathanturley.org/2026/10/01/education-department-calls-for-transparency-and-tolerance-teacher-unions-cry-foul/

Source: The UnPopulist
by Linda Chavez

“On Tuesday, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport immigrants to countries where they have no ties, with little or no notice and no meaningful chance to object. In a 6-3 decision, the Court’s conservative majority put on hold U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy’s ruling that the policy is unlawful until the justices consider the case, with arguments set for December. It is the third time the administration has asked the Supreme Court to block Murphy’s rulings, and the third time the Roberts Court has shamefully obliged. To see what that means in practice, consider what happened the first time the Court let these removals go forward.” (10/01/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-supreme-court-just-consigned

Source: The Intercept
by David Vine

“Trump’s proposed budget hides $1 trillion in military spending from the public by spreading it across disparate government agencies.” (10/01/26)

https://theintercept.com/2026/10/01/trump-military-true-cost-budget-pentagon-trillions/

Source: Reason
by Katherine Mangu-Ward

“To argue in good faith—the literal translation of the Latin—means assuming that the person on the other side is saying what he actually believes and that disagreement is not itself evidence of corruption, cowardice, or deceit. And vice versa. The assumption and practice of good faith makes intellectual debate possible. And yet it feels increasingly rare. Tell someone you favor free trade and you will quickly learn you are really serving the interests of multinational corporations. Defend immigration and you are importing voters. Oppose a war and you are carrying water for the enemy. Politics, in particular, seems to bring out this line of reasoning.” (10/01/26)

https://reason.com/2026/10/01/the-effort-of-good-faith/

Source: Foreign Policy In Focus
by Phyllis Bennis

“In this run-up to the 2026 mid-term elections, progressive movements and candidates remain caught up in the challenges of rising authoritarianism and militarism both at home and around the world. We are mobilizing against new US-Israeli wars against Iran and across the Middle East/West Asia region, including Israel’s US-enabled genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. We face explosive US bombing raids and illegal military interventions in Latin America, Africa, and beyond, as well as threats to Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and elsewhere — with President Donald Trump at the center of all of it. What’s different now compared to past crises is that many bold progressive leaders have won competitive primaries in this year’s midterms — often putting opposition to war and genocide at the center of their messaging.” (10/01/26)

https://fpif.org/foreign-policy-crisis-points-awaiting-the-next-generation-of-progressive-lawmakers/

Source: Washington Post
by Sophie Gilbert

“Mill City, Oregon, sits amid a patchwork of green. Across millions of acres at the base of the Cascades, deep-moss old-growth forests mingle with the bright lime of young trees recovering after timber harvests and fires. And roads thread through it all. Most of these forest roads were built in the last century to move ancient fir trees to the mills that gave the town its name. Today, only two mills remain, and the aging roads are a maintenance nightmare for the U.S. Forest Service. The massive Beachie Creek Fire of 2020 compounded the problem, damaging roads as well as Mill City and other nearby towns. Would more roads help or hurt places such as Mill City?” (10/01/26)

https://archive.is/3XIFN

Source: Los Angeles Times
by Jackie Calmes

“For much of my life funerals were, well, funereal, as black as attendees’ attire. Yet in recent decades, I’ve found that I often leave memorial services less mournful than upbeat. They’re inspiring, these so-called celebrations of life, with eulogies not from impersonal priests but from people who knew the dead person best. Tributes are seasoned with humor and paeans to personal character more than professional accomplishments. I walk out thinking not about death but life — especially my own, and resolving to be a better person. This week I left such a service with a broader resolve: that our nation was once, and can be again, a better country. The celebration was for the full and varied life of Alan Greenspan, the legendary longtime chair of the Federal Reserve who died in June at 100.” (10/01/26)

https://archive.is/9lCxQ

Source: Persuasion
by Leonora Barclay

“Being hot isn’t the same as being happy.” (10/01/26)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-boys-are-alright-looking-but

Source: Law & Liberty
by Thomas Savidge

“Keeping a resolution to restore fiscal order requires confronting the incentives that make promises attractive today and their financing easy to postpone. A new American fiscal constitution should make lawmakers reckon with those costs when they authorize those commitments.” (10/01/26)

https://lawliberty.org/a-new-fiscal-years-resolution/

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Eyal Shahar

“Each year the CDC publishes an estimate of the effectiveness of the flu vaccine in the previous flu season. Recently, the NIH director criticized the test-negative design from which the estimates are derived. He was right. The basic premise of the design is a two-edged sword: on the one hand, restricting the sample to people who sought medical care might reduce confounding by healthcare-seeking behavior; on the other hand, that restriction might add another type of bias — colliding bias — which is not as widely appreciated. The net bias remains unknown.” (10/01/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/we-cannot-trust-the-cdc-estimates-of-flu-vaccine-effectiveness/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Mark Harmsworth

“This week the Seattle City Council passed Mayor Katie Wilson’s ‘Fair Pricing and Transparency’ ordinance in a 7–2 vote, a first-in-the-nation ban on so-called surveillance pricing. The ordinance takes effect in 2027. The Washington Retail Association warned for months that the bill was rushed, would have significant and negative impact on prices, and that nearly all suggested fixes were ignored. As approved, retailers must decide whether they can keep offering the tailored discounts and loyalty programs that Seattle families actually use or cancel all the programs and charge more for groceries. Government should not be price-fixing consumer products. Banning the use of loyalty cards and programs, fuel rewards, and targeted coupons hurts businesses and consumers alike.” (10/01/26)

https://fee.org/articles/the-first-city-to-price-fix-your-groceries/

Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter

“We hear it every two years – some Democrat promising to solve all your problems by pushing ‘Medicare for All!’ It’s the cure for what ails you, they insist: your health insurance. But there is a lot about the healthcare industry, including insurance, that they don’t tell you. I will. This year’s model of promising Utopia is Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. He has joined the Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chorus insisting ‘free’ healthcare is just a vote away. We’ve heard this song before, and we’ve seen it around the world, too. It never ends up well for the people who fall for it. Abdul was unambiguous about his intentions, pledging to get rid of private health insurance completely for his government takeover. But what works well in Democrat primaries doesn’t necessarily sell all that well to normal people, and most people like their health coverage.” (10/01/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/10/01/medicare-for-all-is-an-awful-idea-n2683896

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson

“We know the Franklin Roosevelt regime from its famous (or infamous) New Deal—a mishmash of government intervention wrongly credited with ending the depression when, in fact, it extended it. Roosevelt’s first term was dominated by his attempt to reorganize the entire US economy into a series of government-sponsored cartels (the First New Deal), but, however radical the programs might have been, FDR was being attacked from the right (Father Charles Coughlin, a populist broadcaster) and Long, who came in from the left. Of the two, Long was seen as the greater political threat, but (at least for Roosevelt) he was ‘conveniently’ assassinated in 1935 in the Louisiana capitol where the bullet holes from the guns of the assassin, Carl Weiss, and Long’s bodyguards are still marked on the walls. (Guy Rexford Tugwell, one of FDR’s advisers, called the assassination ‘providential’).” (10/01/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/every-man-slave-huey-long-model-wrong-kind-populism

Source: USA Today

“Days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush gave the world a now-infamous ultimatum: ‘Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.’ Thus began the forever war on terror and a shift in the American psyche that sought the destruction of any perceived enemy as some sort of divine retribution for the horrific acts witnessed on 9/11. This thirst for justice led to the popularity of ‘To Catch a Predator,’ an early 2000s reality TV series on ‘Dateline NBC’ that used hidden-camera sting operations to catch adults who showed up to meet underage decoys for sex. It was unobjectionable on its surface. The objectively abhorrent people depicted on the show deserve to be held accountable for their perversion. But the show existed in a bevy of contradictions, particularly in how it blurred the line between entertainment and justice, ultimately collapsing in on itself.” (10/01/26)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/10/01/primetime-movie-to-catch-predator-chris-hansen-justice/92004760007/

Source: Liberal Currents
by Samantha Hancox-Li

“Donald Trump’s administration is increasingly defined by its foreign policy adventures. To his critics these are the deadly flailings of a mad king; to his supporters these are strategic masterstrokes reshaping the globe to America’s advantage. What has been missed in the partisan hullabaloo is how Trump’s foreign policy actions are not in fact a result of his unique personality. They are a result of structural forces which can be observed the world over: the return of the cutting-off way.” (10/01/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-return-of-the-cutting-off-way/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Julia R Cartwright

“Tokyo houses millions more people than New York, with a surprisingly simple affordability formula: let people build more housing.” (10/01/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/why-apartments-in-tokyo-are-so-much-cheaper-than-in-nyc/

Source: Washington Monthly
by Jonah Blank

“One of many current controversies over artificial intelligence centers on ‘alignment’: A euphemism for ‘trying to build AI that won’t intentionally kill us all.’ That’s important, but it overshadows a more immediate concern: The misalignment not between AI and humans, but between humans. That is, the misalignment of interests between the people who own AI and the rest of us.” (10/01/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/10/01/the-ai-alignment-that-can-save-us/

Source: OtherWords
by Amy Hanauer

“Affordability is getting worse, especially if you have to drive to work or anywhere else. By late September, the total cost of the higher gas and diesel prices triggered by President Donald Trump’s war against Iran exceeded $103 billion, according to my organization’s analysis of the federal government’s energy data. And those higher prices aren’t showing any sign of slowing. If current trends hold, the price tag by the end of this year will approach $180 billion. For the average household, that comes out to $750 extra so far, and that figure is on pace to top $1,300 by year’s end. For a family of four with two drivers, those costs are even higher, topping $1,000 already and slated to be over $1,700 by the end of the year if the war continues.” (10/01/26)

https://otherwords.org/trumps-invasion-of-iran-could-cost-you-thousands/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Patrick Pillow

“On September 17, Julian Assange’s return to Twitter/X did not go unnoticed. With more than fifty-one million impressions, it becomes clear his and WikiLeaks’[s] impact is undeniable. Still, his journalism and WikiLeaks have not come without scrutiny. Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin stated Assange should be ‘hunted down.’ Current U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said regarding his work, ‘whoever in our government leaked that information is guilty of treason, and I think anything less than execution is too kind a penalty.’ Meanwhile, former secretary of state and CIA Chief Mike Pompeo considered kidnapping and killing Julian Assange, according to reports from Yahoo News.” (10/01/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/when-wikileaks-exposed-the-world-assange-returns-to-social-media/

Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Tim Worstall

“We have, a number of times, insisted that China is one of the most free market economies on the planet. Yes, obviously, there’s all that national planning and state ownership of industry and so on. Commanding heights and the Communist Party and all that. And yet at the ground level entry into a market is near entirely free of restriction. In that free to enter the market sense of free market it probably is that most free market economy too. In the professional life of one of us we’ve seen a Chinese company go from idea to production in the time it takes to do the environmental paperwork in Europe. We’re even willing to agree that total freedom to do just anything might not be optimal. But more absence of regulation and where that’s non-optimal less and faster seems like a good idea to us.” (10/01/26)

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/the-costs-of-the-regulatory-state

Source: Law & Liberty
by Robert P George

“The 25-year-old William F. Buckley Jr. wrote God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of ‘Academic Freedom’ with an appreciation of the contributions made by leading universities in the United States, Great Britain, and elsewhere in the building of our civilization. His special concern was with the civic order, and the role of institutions of higher education in forming citizens of a constitutional democratic republic. As James Madison said, a ‘well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.’ But is there not a tension between two ideals: that of education for citizenship (especially in a republic—that is, a regime in which government is not only of and for the people, but also by the people themselves), and that of liberal education: the unrestricted pursuit of truth, understood not as a means to other ends, but as an end-in-itself?” (10/01/26)

https://lawliberty.org/forum/god-man-and-academic-freedom/

Source: UnHerd
by John P Ruel

“While genuine concern exists, constant warnings from AI companies serve as both a marketing tool and consolidation strategy.” (10/01/26)

https://asiatimes.com/2026/10/ais-apparent-danger-is-its-best-selling-point/

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“Something curious has happened to the young, a new government report suggests: ‘the number of high school students who use marijuana has decreased by almost half — 44 percent — since states started enacting adult-use legalization.’ … a standard argument against marijuana legalization: If marijuana is readily available, kids will increase usage of the ‘pernicious weed.’ Hasn’t happened! But why?” (10/01/26)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/10/01/just-say-uncool/

Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine

“The ‘Cornell 7’ gang rape case is descending into the same lynch-mob hysteria as the notorious Duke lacrosse or ‘mattress girl’ hoaxes of old — only with social media making ­everything worse. It seems we have learned nothing from past injustices. A young woman who goes by ‘Jane Doe’ has filed a civil lawsuit two years after she alleged she was gang-raped by seven men in a sordid, drug-fueled sexual encounter at the Chi Phi fraternity house at the elite Cornell University, where she was a student at the time. Predictably, the fraternity brothers have been judged guilty in the court of man-hating public opinion. Yet, according to Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten, citing Doe’s sworn statement to campus investigators in November 2024, she ‘described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious and consensual’. When she told the young men to stop, they did.” (09/30/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/09/30/opinion/miranda-devine-the-lynch-mob-is-out-for-the-cornell-7-proving-weve-learned-nothing-from-past-injustices/

Source: Reason

“How Nikole Hannah-Jones Gets School Choice All Wrong.” (10/01/26)

https://reason.com/podcast/2026/10/01/how-nikole-hannah-jones-gets-school-choice-all-wrong/

Source: Politics Politics Politics

“Are Data Centers Going to Flip Ohio Blue? Checking in on the Midterms One Month Out (with Kirk Bado).” (10/01/26)

https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/are-data-centers-going-to-flip-ohio

Source: The Anarchist Experience

“Rich and Riley discuss the new twist in the Lindsay Clancy saga, and why do modern women suck.” (10/01/26)

https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/the-anarchist-experience-600/

Source: The Hill

“Robby Soave gives his radar on Florida Rep. Angie Nixon suggesting that her opponent in the state Senate race, Ashley Moody, should be in prison.” (10/01/26)

https://thehill.com/hilltv/6123357-rising-october-1-2026/

Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report

“Is Trump About To Invade Cuba?” (10/01/26)

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yxBePABlbpJN

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation

“The Dark Legacy of the ‘Good War.'” (10/01/26)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp5y8fl_lGg

Source: Freedom’s Phoenix

“Ernest Hancock interviews Etienne de la Boetie2.” (10/01/026)

https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/401905-2026-09-29-2026-10-01-ernest-hancock-interviews-etienne-de-la-boetie2.htm

Source: New York Times

“What Newly Obtained Documents Show About the Cornell Case.” (10/01/26)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuGlnF2DEoM

Source: Gracearchy with Jim Babka

“Nikole Hanna Jones'[s] Daughter Gives Mom An F .” (10/01/26)

https://rumble.com/v7fziwo-nikole-hanna-jones-daughter-gives-mom-an-f-gracearchy-with-jim-babka-170.html

Source: Underthrow

“What is the Proper Role of Government?” (10/01/26)

https://underthrow.substack.com/p/what-is-the-proper-role-of-government

Source: National Review

“The American Dream, Human Flourishing, and The Bahnsen Group.” (10/01/26)

https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/the-american-dream-human-flourishing-and-the-bahnsen-group/

Source: Brennan Center for Justice

“The Midterms, Built by the Roberts Court.” (10/01/26)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9ixWy3969g

Source: The Political Orphanage

“The Man Who Killed Antitrust.” (10/01/26)

https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/the-man-who-killed-antitrust

Source: The New Republic

“Trump TV Ads Backfire as New Poll Shows He’s Shockingly Toxic for GOP.” (10/01/26)

https://newrepublic.com/article/216058/trump-tv-ads-backfire-new-poll-shows-he-shockingly-toxic-gop

Source: National Public Radio [US state media]

“What’s on the Supreme Court docket this term?” (10/01/26)

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/01/nx-s1-5987690/whats-on-the-supreme-court-docket-this-term

Source: The Dispatch

“Not a MAGA Court.” (10/01/26)

https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/not-a-maga-court/

Source: Fountainhead Forum

“Nicholas Provenzo on Lindsay Clancy and the Objective Law Initiative.” (09/30/26)

https://rumble.com/v7g7o8c-ff-494-nicholas-provenzo-on-lindsay-clancy-and-the-objective-law-initiative.html

Source: The Moynihan Report

“Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Joby Warrick on how 1970s terrorists wrote the playbook for today’s jihadists.” (09/30/26)

https://www.themoynihan.report/p/carlos-the-jackal-the-first-celebrity

Source: Free the People

“Parents Deserve Better from Their Schools | Guest: Paul Martino.” (09/30/26)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7JFXIWAL0

Source: Libertarian Institute

“Joe Terwilliger: Tensions Flare in East Asia as North Korea Tests Hypersonic Missiles!” (09/30/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-guest-joe-terwilliger-tensions-flare-in-east-asia-as-north-korea-tests-hypersonic-missiles/